Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-01-08 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We show that intermediate mass black holes conjectured to be the early precursors of supermassive black holes and surrounded by relic cold dark matter density spikes can act as particle accelerators with collisions, in principle, at arbitrarily high centre of mass energies in the case of Kerr black holes. While the ejecta from such interactions will be highly redshifted, we may anticipate the possibility of a unique probe of Planck-scale physics.
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@article{arxiv.0909.0169,
title = {Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy},
author = {Máximo Bañados and Joseph Silk and Stephen M. West},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0169},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, PDFLaTex, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.Lett